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Relevancy of content to lung cancer patients and their loved ones

Quality of content (is it accurate? who is the author? are the sources cited?)

Timeliness (is the content current? is site updated regularly?)

If a website, who runs the site, how is it funded, how is privacy managed?

Duplication (does the resource duplicate existing content?)

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